posh

Example Sentences

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The count, like many of the more posh male residents of Königsberg, had for some time found Ebel disconcerting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Although he catered to rich people and hung out in posh nightclubs on the Westside, Louis said he made only about $50,000 a year and lived in an apartment in Burbank.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Zlotowski blends the posh, formal rigor of the former with the stylistic panache and sexy intrigue of the latter, but with a flair and distinct femininity that culminates in some truly breathtaking narrative detours.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

His 18th-century forerunners, the London macaroni and the Paris incroyable, had one foot in the court and the other in the city street, but the dandy, posh or not, lived in a middle-class, democratic society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Before the war it had a posh civil flying club, and it has also been a Royal Air Force base for years.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein